The color citron (and all it's variations) is a great example of how color trends evolve.

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Color trends usually start on the fringes. That's why I like to say, "pay attention to what you don't like". Your negative reaction may stem from the fact that it's "new" and your eye hasn't become adjusted to it. For example this ad was from around 2006. When I've shown this the reaction is usually negative. Comments like, "I could never wear that color next to my skin". But it's amazing how the more we see a color over time, the more we start to accept it and before you know it we're buying it. Probably not in this super saturated undiluted Dior couturecreationbut it'll start sifting into the mix of everything you buy from your clothes right down the line to the plastic storage bins you stash them in for the next season.

It took me a long long long time to not bristle at the yellow-gray combination that has been so popular over the last few years. I'm finally starting to see things in this scheme and think they're cute. They're still not "me" though, so don't enter me in the drawing. I just wanted to comment on the evolution idea. :)

I adore this color story! And I love the part about seeing colors you don't like at first....I hated this combo when I first saw it over a year ago.....suddenly, I can't stop buying yellow and grey fabric!

I have been obsessed with this color combo since college, so when my boyfriend proposed I knew immediately what I wanted my wedding colors to be!! I'm incorporating fabric and quilted details into my wedding decor and have had my eye on these fabrics for a while. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity! :)

I remember painting color wheels at art school and then learning color theory and suddenly grey was an actual color for me... (AND I can't believe I have spelt color the American way 4 times now!! Feels weird LOL)

I love this color combination. It's one of my most favorites. I saw an ad in the NY TImes a few months ago, I think it was Eileen Fisher...a gray sweater with a citron scarf wrapped around the neck. It was wonderful!

big fan of the bicycles. and thank you very much for explaining the whole "trends" thing. i've been asked that question many times and always find it hard to explain the phenomenon you so very well described. yay! for citron and grey! (and personally, i've been obsessed with that dior "yellow" for quite some time. loooovely!)

i've just become a huge fan of this color combo. basically pinning every yellow or gray thing to my pinterest account. I would LOVE this set to use for clothing, accessories and home decor! Good luck everyone!

I love the citron grey combo. It was interesting what you said about color trends. I remember years ago, watching Trading Spaces--the designers were using light blue and chocolate together. I thought that was such an awful color combination for home decor. Eventually, I got used to it. Then I loved it. Then I got sick of it. :) Thanks for the chance to win some fabric!

I have been struggling to come up with a color for our main bathroom. I wanted to do something fun and colorful, not our usual brown/earth tones. I have been trying to force myself into a turquoise color, but after seeing this post, I am doing GRAY and CITRON!! Just the right amount of color... and I will be ahead of the trend instead of behind:) Thanks!

I have to admit I love this color story. These are colors I have been wanting to use in a quilt for awhile so I am happy they are the trend now and I love the Citron Gray Collection. Thanks for the DWP clip so funny!

Citron and grey is one of my favorite color combinations. Grey is one of my favorite colors. I love almost all colors that have a hint of grey in it. This would be just an AWESOME collection of fabrics for me and I know EXACTLY what I'd do with it!

Very interesting color combination. I think it has taken a little while to grow on me but now I really like it. I'd also love to see a little more green mixed into that yellow. Always love the gray...such a great neutral...

This color story combination is a big winner - can see it for decorating with quilts. It has a pop yet the grey subdues some. Please enter me into the drawing! alternate email mlwright29(at)hotmail(dot)com

Beautiful fabrics, and someone will be a lucky winner! As far as my thoughts about color????? I've found that my likes and dislikes have changed so much since I started quilting. Colors I never liked have snuck into my heart. Awwww....

I think that sometimes when we see a colour in isolation we can't 'interpret' it into our lives. It is only when we see it combined with a more familiar colour that we can say that's fabulous. I like this combination. It is a great example of how to learn to mix colours up.

This colour story is perfectly matched, so fresh and feminine .. lovely things can be made with this... I am all new to this quilting business but after have made number 3 i am itching to make number 4.Cheers!

oh, i need to watch that movie again! what a great clip and i am so guilty of the same "mistake" anne hathaway made! if it were up to me alone, i would wear black and white everyday! i do love the colorway featured today...what a divine quilt it would make for my room!

We just bought our first home and are painting the whole house in three shade of gray with green and blue accents. This fabric would be perfect for my guest room and bathroom...I see curtains, a shower curtain, a quilt and more. Oh how I hope I win!!

Maybe Citron will rub off on me the way orange did. I used to hate orange and now it is my favorite color. I would love to work with these fabrics. What better way for them to rub off. :-) Thank you. Take care and God bless, Cory

I love, love, love this. My friend is having a wedding in a few months and has chosen yellow and gray for her colors. At first I thought, "Really?? Hmmm." Now I'm 100% converted. I love the bicycles, love the daisies and the dots. Just love it!

Love this color combo!!!! It reminds me of a cold, windy day on the beach....which is something I have been wanting for a long time. the beach in the summer is great, but nothing beats sitting on the beach in october in a big ole hoodie, just listening to the ocean!

Absolutely love it! Like the punches of black with it as well! You are so right...sometimes a person can't "get into the color" until they have "lived" around it for a while. This color business is fascinating!!

Love Love love the grey! And the lemon drops you have in that picture remind me of how my grandma always had a bowl of them sitting in her livingroom. I'd sneak them until my mouth was sore! I love the citron and grey together. It's an exciting new combination!

I love the color theories you are presenting! Really interesting about the darker the hair, the more intense the color and vise versa!! I never knew!! I love my colors saturated - and i'm a brunette! LOL! The citron and grey combo is one of my favorites, and this line is absolutely gorgeous! Love love love the high contrast, and modern statement they make! Citron and all it's derivitives has been a long time favorite of mine - and i love putting it with red! :) Thanks for the chance to win!

a whole yard of each! oh the possibilities!!!!!! I am not sure I like the picture, and the 80's poofy frizzy hair was ugly. some things are too much. I think it is a perfectly fine color mixed with gray, and you have proven that with this wonderful collection.

You are making me feel better about changing my mind on colors I strongly dislike. Orange and mustardy yellow were my least-liked colors, and now I want to quilt with them in a big way. Your post made me feel less like a wishy-washy follower--I am someone who rejects the new and dislikes change, and it's no surprise I'm that way with color as well.

absolutely love the citron and grey collection!looking at it brings to mind lemonade and silver. both of these are cooling to the mind. maybe it is because we are in the middle of summer with my a/c on the fritz that i find these prints so refreshing. bold and crisp and cool yet lemon is a warm color, non? and very retro... so much that i envision sitting at a 60's diner, with yellow arborite tables and covered seats, sipping on cool lemonade, wearing a skirt of the large black and yellow flowers. the waitress behind the long counters of course would be wearing an apron from one of the prints. and of course outside the window people would be riding bicycles. it also reminds me of the 60's and my mother as she would wear prints like these. she was bold for women of her day and i loved her clothes. i love it!

My daughter and I love this new line!My son and his fiancé are not quilt people but I wanted to make a quilt for their wedding, so I showed them this collection of fabric and they fell in love with it. We plan to make a contemporary quilt with this fabric and this is perfect for the couple! This yellow and grey combination has shown up in their wedding plans!Check out this website for citron/gray wedding trends.http://www.colourlovers.com/wedding/blog/2011/06/22/wedding-color-trend-yellow-grayThanks! Becky and Laura

This is a wonderful color combination. I've gravitated to a light to medium citron when selecting some clothing items for myself and now it's more widely available in prints! Thanks Kathy and MMF for creating these absolutely delicious prints....a very welcomed breath of fresh air!

Wow, love this colour combination - it really is vibrant (never thought I'd say that about grey). Would love to win the fabrics, am moving home soon and can already see myself making some new accessories!

Where were you three years ago when I was getting married???? We incorporated these colors into our wedding almost 3 years ago this September. We had a vintage yellow Schwinn tandem bicycle that provided the inspiration. My husband is a cycling addict so it only seemed fitting to incorporate the tandem and the color scheme into our wedding. Oh the fun things I could have done with these fabrics!

Love the clip from The Devil Wears Prada almost as much as I love these fabrics. I had been looking for this color combination and was delighted when I found it in some of my favorite Michael Miller fabric designs.

LOVE the color combination!! The funny thing is I was just thinking the other day how pretty much everything we wear is- without us realizing it- exactly what the fashion industry is telling us to wear. I was looking at all the trendy outfits and accessories and thinking how all the young girls probably felt like they had come up with the idea when in reality it was put together by someone long before they ever saw and purchased it!

I'm sad :(I can't find any Zoology in Citron fabric anywhere! I am pregnant with my first baby and am choosing various MM grey and citron prints for everything but the zoology in citron is nowhere to be found. Can someone help me??

Yellow has never been my favorite color but everytime I enter a fabric shop I am drawn to the yellows. Putting it with gray makes it absoulty stunning. I love this whole collection. By the way my kitchen is painted in 4 shades of yellow. Go figure LOL